Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

General Documents

The following documents provide historical information and introductory material to EPICS, and are mostly retained for historical interest only. Much of the information here is now out of date, so these documents should not be relied upon for more than an indication of what was originally planned and implemented in earlier versions of EPICS. Textual links are to HTML documents, other formats are indicated by an icon link.

• EPICS Overview
  
• EPICS Architecture
  by L.R. Dalesio (LANL), M.R. Kraimer (ANL), A.J. Kozubal (LANL) (11/91)
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• EPICS: A Control System Software Co-Development Success Story
  by M. Knott (ANL), D. Gurd (SSCL), S. Lewis (LBL), and M. Thuot (LANL) (9/93)
  
• Links in a Distributed Database: Theory and Implementation
  by Nicholas T. Karonis and Martin R. Kraimer (12/91)
  [189 KB]   [56 KB]  
• A Methodology For String Resolution
  by Nicholas T. Karonis (11/92)
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• The EPICS Architecture: Past, Present and Future
  by Leo R. Dalesio et al. (1/98)
  

APS Control System

• APS Controls Overview
  
• Status of the APS and Its Accelerator Control System
  by W. McDowell, M. Knott, M. Kraimer (9/93)
  

Other interesting historical documents

• EPICS Primer
  by Paul Maley
  
• APS Naming Conventions (1998)
  
• BABAR Naming Conventions
  by Steve Lewis (1998)
  
• IOC CORE REV 4
  by Marty Kraimer (1997)